St. Landry democrat. (Opelousas, La.) 1878-1894, 1887-07-09

Ola now, are visiting the son al the VI
lage parsonage and at the close of
Sabbath of mighty blessing, father an
mother retire to their room, the so
lighting the way and asking them if h
can do anything to make them NOR
comfortable, saying if they want any
thing in the night just to knock on tn
wall. And then, all alone, father an
mother talk over the gracious influence
of the day, and say: well, it wa
worth all we went through to educat
that boy. 1t was hard pull, but W
held on till the work was done. TIL
world may not know it, but mother, w
held the rope, didn't WEI" And tn
voice, tremulous with joyful emotion
responds: Eyes, father, we held tn
rope. l feel my work is done. Now
Lord, lettest thou Thy servant depart il
peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy sal
vation." "Pshawp says the father, :"
never felt so much like living in my lft
as now | want to see what that fellow
is going on to do, he has begun so we'll
Something occurs to me quite personal
l was the youngest of large family OF
children. My parents were neither rich
nor poor; four of the sons wanted col
legiate education, and four obtained it
but not without great home-struggle
We never heard the old people say once
that they were denying themselves to eff.
feet this, but l remember now that my
parents always looked tired | don't
think they ever got rested until they lay
| down in the Somerville Cemetery. Mother
would sit down in the evening and say,
well, don't know what makes me feel
SO tired p Father would fall Immediately
to sleep, seated by the evening stand,
overcome with the days fatigues. One
of the four brothers, after preaching the
Gospel for about fifty years, entered upon
his heavenly rest. Another of the four
is now on the other side the earth, mis-
sionary of the cross. Two of us are in
this land in the holy ministry, and I
think all of US are willing to acknowl-
edge our obligation to the old folks at
home. About twenty-one years ago the
one, and about twenty-three years ago
the other, put down the burdens of this
life, but they still hold the rope.
Come, let US go right up and accost
those on this circle of heavenly thrones.
Surely, they must have killed in battle a
million men. Surely they must have
been buried with all the cathedrals
sounding q dirge, and all the towers of
all the cities tolling the national grief.
Who art thou, mighty one of Heaven?
II lived by choice the unmarried
daughter in an humble home that I
might take care of my parents in their
old age, and 1 endured without COM
plants all their querulousness, and ad-
ministered to all their wants for twenty
years"
Let US pass on round the circle of
thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of
Heaven? II was for thirty years q
Christian invalid, and suffered all the
while, occasionally writing a note of
sympathy for those worse off than l,
and was general confdant of all those
who had trouble, and once in q while
was strong enough to make a garment
for that poor family in the back lane"
Pass on to another throne. Who art
thou, mighty one of Heaven? II was
the mother who raised whole family of
children for God, and they are out in the
world Christian merchants, Christian
Christian wives, and I have
have had full reward of all my toll"
Let us pass ON in the circle of thrones. |
Il had Sabbath-school class, and they !
were always on my heart, and they all
the kingdom of God, and / am
waiting for their arrival"
But who art thou, the mighty one of
Heaven on this other throne? I'm time
If bitter persecution owned house in
Damascus, house on the wall. A man
Who preached Christ was bounded from
treet to street, and I hid him from the
and when found them break
ng in my house and l could no longer
,eep him safely, l advised him to flee for
lis life, and basket was let down over
he wall with the maltreated man in it,
md was one who helped hold the rope"
md said: us that all ?" And he an
wered: THAT is all" And while I was
ost in amazement, heard strong voice
hat sounded as though it might once
ave been hoarse from many exposures,
nd triumphant as though it might have
eionged to one of the martyrs, and it
aid: Not many mighty, not many noble
re called, but God hath chosen the weak
lings OF the world to confound the
lings which are mighty, and base things
the world and things which are de-
olsed hath God chosen, yea, and things
hlch are not to bring to naught things
hich are, that no flesh should glorv in
is presence" And | looked to see from
hence the voice came, and lo it was
e very one who had said: Through a
lndow in basket was / let down by =
e wall" :
Henceforth think of nothing as in I
ynificant. A little thing may decide 8
'ur all. A Cunarder put out from Eng !
nd. for New York. 1t was well equipped, q
1t in putting up stove in the pilot 2
x nail was driven too near the com i
IS. You know how that nail would F
sect the compass. The ships officers,
ceived by that distracted compass, put
e ship two hundred miles off her right
urse, and suddenly the man on the T
)kout cried: Land hop and the
lp was halted within few yards of her
molition on Nantucket shoals. A ff
penny nail came near wrecking a o,
harder. Small ropes hold mi hty As
stinies. -
4 minister seated in Boston at his ia 4,
}, lacking word, puts his hand behind a
head and tits back his chair to think, sh
/ the ceiling falls and brushes the m
lie and would have crushed him. A al
mister in Jamaica at night by the light III u
an insect, called the candle-1y, is kept c li
m stepping over precipice hun tn
ID feet. F. W. Robertson, the cele- in
ted English clergyman, said that he wi
cred the ministry from train of cir hr